Kathmandu. A corruption case has been filed against former Speaker Krishna Bahadur Mahara . The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has filed a corruption case against 29 persons including Mahara at the Special Court.

The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has filed a corruption case against them for misusing their position to cause loss of property in the case of gold smuggling through electronic cigarette (vape). 

The Commission for the Investigation of Abuse of Authority (CIAA) has also named Arun Pokhrel, the then chief of the Tribhuvan International Airport Customs Office, as a defendant in the case. 

Similarly, the case has been filed against Chief Customs Officer Mukti Prasad Shrestha, Chief Customs Officer Ambika Prasad Khanal, Customs Officer Ramesh Kumar Khatiwada, Custom s Officer Subendra Shrestha, Nayab Subba Subarna Prabha KC, Bhuwan Raj Ghimire, Umesh Prasad Koirala, Rewanta Khadka and Madhu sudan Pokharel. 

Mahara’s son Rahul, Nirmal Kumar vik, Lokendra Kumar Paudel, Dipesh Basnet, Gopal Subedi, Dinesh Basnet, Bed Prakash Agrawal, Ramkesh Thapa Chhetri, The case has also been filed against Amrit Karki, Nima Gurung, Prerana Thapa, Lalita Thapa, Deepika Thapa, Chinese Citizen Li Hang Song and Daozing Wang, Belgian citizen Dawa Tshering, Indian citizen Saheb Rao Pandurang }

The CIAA has fixed a claim of Rs 7,78,68,095 in the case.